Senior Engineer, Enterprise Systems Technology

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney. 

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here.

Job Description

You will work as a Senior Engineer in the Enterprise Systems under the Technology and Data department, responsible for designing, building, configuring, and evolving end-to-end technology solutions that enable the Legal business group. Projects are delivered in close collaboration with team members and business partners using agile methodologies.

The Opportunity:

• Design, develop and support robust, resilient, and scalable technical solutions and integrations in Python. They may include server-side enterprise solutions, integrations between SaaS or custom applications, GUI, data-driven reporting solutions, or highly customized solutions developed for the specific needs of a business partner.
• Build responsible UI using modern javascript (React and Angular) technologies
• Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.
• Prepare and document design and program specifications.
• Drive software delivery through prototyping exercises to solicit early user feedback and discover appropriate solutions.
• Manage timelines/deliverables towards the successful delivery of projects.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application and functional support issues. Manage incident triage, escalation, and resolution of client service requests (SR).
• Learn and understand the end-to-end functional relationship of the applications and how it supports and enables the business on the day-to-day processes.
• Document and validate results with business subject matter experts and drive the creation of correct system specifications that enable development, application configuration and/or acquisition of appropriate systems to meet business requirements.
• Coordinate business subject matter experts to brainstorm and document innovative solution alternatives and provides expert advice and guidance to business partners about opportunities and problems related to their requested functionality.
• Document and maintain the system configuration and integration details.
• Provide end-user support and 3rd level production support. Provide responsive assistance to business partners. Work with the business users, other IT teams to ensure the smooth execution of the day-to-day application processes and monitor month-end close activities.
• Proactively find improvement opportunities to streamline business processes, automate manual processes where appropriate.
• Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation.

Qualifications

If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• Strong knowledge of: Python, SQL, and UI development using javascript (React and Angular) technologies
• A passion to keep up to date in technology.
• Experience in architecting and developing cloud-native solutions on AWS preferred.
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, and relationship management skills.
• Commitment to CPP Investment’ guiding principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance.

Additional Information

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.